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Title: Support slides for Merkel serving full term as coalition talks beckon
Post by: Right_in_Virginia on December 28, 2017, 03:08:02 pm

Support slides for Merkel serving full term as coalition talks beckon
Reuters, Dec 27, 2017

BERLIN (Reuters) - If Angela Merkel becomes German chancellor again, nearly half of voters would want her to quit her term early, according to a poll offering a rare sign that domestic support for Europe’s most influential leader may be waning.

Merkel’s conservatives won a national election in September, setting her up for a fourth stint in office.  But they bled support to the far right, and talks on a three-way coalition with the Greens and the pro-business Free Democrats collapsed in November.

Merkel is now pinning her hopes on cutting a deal with the center-left Social Democrats (SPD), who finished second in the election but have so far given a lukewarm response to the idea of renewing the ‘grand coalition’ that governed Germany between 2013 and 2017.


More: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-politics/support-slides-for-merkel-serving-full-term-as-coalition-talks-beckon-idUSKBN1EL0QM (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-politics/support-slides-for-merkel-serving-full-term-as-coalition-talks-beckon-idUSKBN1EL0QM)

Title: Re: Support slides for Merkel serving full term as coalition talks beckon
Post by: Bigun on December 28, 2017, 03:34:45 pm

She shouldn't serve another five minutes IMHO!